love and Suicide.

Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 245, 10 March 1888, Page 5

love and Suicide.

At about 11 a.m. on the 19th February, a Frenchman named Peter Baldwin, residingat 46, Druitt-street, Sydney, committed suicide by blowing his brains out with a> revolver. A woman named Annie Finlay, or Clifford, living at the same address, stated that Baldwin had on several occasions proposed marriage to her, which shealways declined. Between 9 and 10 a. m. he entered her bedroom and gave her a glass of brandy and soda, after which herenewed his proposal to her, which she again refused. He then took a handful of money out of his pocket and offered to give it to her, saying that she might as well nave it as the Government*. Shortly afterwards he went into his own room, and she started to go downstairs. When passing by Baldwin's apartment shelooked in and caw him sitting on his bed with a five-chambered revolver in his hand. Upon asking him what he was doing with the weapon sho receiyed no reply, and wasin the act of , leaving him when she heard the report of a pistol shot. She then hurried downstairs and asked another woman in the house to go for a policeman. Just then another shot was heard and blood was seen to be trickling through thecoiling:. Constables Mallard and Brookswere then summoned, and on entering the room Baldwin wae found to be= suffering from a bullet wound in the head, and from which a large quantity of blood was oozing. An examination of the apart-v ment went to show that a bullet mark had been made in the wall jusfe above the spot Where the woman Finlay was standingprevious to her going downstairs, and that in all probability the first shot was aimed at. her. On being taken ( to the Sydney Hospital, Dr. Hughes found that the bullet had passed clean through deceased's, skull, which was fractured and splintered in all directions. He died while being conveyed to the ward. The deceased, whocarried on the business of a fruiterer, was a week before his death fined £30 ab the Central Police Court for sly grog-selling.

The' y6urig > lover discovers too late he is fitting on Isom'e soft molasses candy placed •in the chair bottom by his sweetheart's younger brother. On being, requested' to take a more comfortable seat, he replies: u Thanks, hot I prefer sitting as I fyn ; "in facty I apt, rather attached to this, chair."' " Doctor, : ■ , ' ' ' ity hat , , is* the • matter' with you"?" Pliant,: "X'find at, very difficult to breatliewWi^ ' my ,i«ngs. " Doctor : "My 'friendi^o^wou'ld.fi^tit more, difficult to - breathe wltlfo'vit .Jjrpur, ; lung9. " (Patent-handled umbrellas arecomipg mto 1 fa.shipn. • handle is so arranged that ib can bo taken' offt Thisisarrimprov6meriton the old style,' .tvherethe whole umbrella was. token off/ ' \ ' ' An e^chan^eha^ari article on " The' Rise ttnd^Fqttj'of "tibe^'Poeti, 1 " >7 One' impdrc&ht point is omitted, however, and that is the length of the stairs.